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Nov 12, 2019

Saurabh Chaudhary Wins Silver Medal In Men's 10m Air Pistol Event At Asian Championship

Saurabh Chaudhary claimed the silver medal in men's 10m air pistol event to continue India's surge at the 14th Asian Championship in Doha.
World Cup and Asian Games gold-medallist shot 244.5 to finish second on the podium behind North Korea's Kim Song Guk, who won the top prize with a world record 246.5. Iran's Foroughi Javed bagged the bronze.

Aronian Wins Superbet Rapid & Blitz In Playoff

Levon Aronian defeated Sergey Karjakin in a playoff to win the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour in Bucharest. With his victory, the Armenian grandmaster secured a spot in the London playoffs in December 2019.
Anton Korobov's Cinderella story was brutally disturbed. He started with five straight losses and would eventually collect just two points—the same amount Fabiano Caruana got on the last day.

Veteran Kenyan Komen wins Athens Marathon

John Kipkorir Komen of Kenya held on to narrowly win the 37th Athens Marathon.
The 42-year-old runner finished in a time of 2 hours, 16 minutes, 34 seconds, beating Rwanda's Felicien Muhitira, 17 years his junior, by nine seconds.
Greek runner Costas Gelaouzos finished third in 2-19-02.
Greece's Eleftheria Petroulaki won the women's race in 2-39-00.
In the men's race, Kenyan runners have won the Athens Marathon, run over a hilly and demanding course, 16 times since 2001.
A record 20,041 runners lined up at the start in the village of Marathon, near the battlefield where Athenians and their allies beat a far larger Persian army in 490 BC. Legend has it that a messenger who ran the distance to Athens to announce the victory died upon arrival.

Javelin Thrower Sundar Singh Wins Gold In World Para Athletics Championships

Javelin thrower Sundar Singh Gurjar has won India's second gold, defending his World Para Athletics Championships title in the men's F46 javelin throw event in Dubai.
With this, India has secured three Tokyo Paralympic Games quota, along with the bronze winner Ajeet Singh and Rinku.
Gurjar came up with his season's best effort of 61.22m to claim the top spot. Singh sent the spear to a distance of 59.46m to clinch the bronze while Rinku finished fourth.
Yogesh Kathuniya added a silver for India in men's discus throw F56 event with a best throw of 42.05m.
India now has two gold, two silver and a bronze in the Championships.

Nov 11, 2019

France beat Australia for Fed Cup title

France emerged triumphant from a weekend of grit and inspiration to claim their first Fed Cup title in 16 years with a 3-2 win over hosts Australia.
Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia combined for the decisive point, grinding down Ash Barty and Sam Stosur 6-4, 6-3 in the doubles to seal France's third title in the team event and leave a heaving crowd of 13,842 at Perth Arena deflated.

Youngest Indian to Score an International Fifty in the first T20I

Shafali Verma, 15 years and 285 days old, shattered her idol Sachin Tendulkar's 30-year-old record when she became the youngest Indian to score an international fifty in the first T20I against the West Indies in St Lucia. Tendulkar was 16 years and 214 days when he scored his maiden half-century (59, vs Pakistan at Faisalabad in 1989). At 15 years and 267 days, UAE's Kavisha Egodage is the youngest woman to score an international 50, against Malayasia in Jan 2019).
Shafali and seasoned opener Smriti Mandhana stitched an unbeaten 143-run opening partnership to set the tone for India's 84-run victory.
Brief Scores: India Women 185/4 (Shafali Verma 73, Smriti Mandhana 67; Anisa Mohammed 2-35, Shakera Selman 2-36) bt West Indies 101/9 (Shermaine Campbelle 33; Radha Yadav 2-10, Shikha Pandey 2-22) by 84 runs.

3 Pak players quit FC teams for T10 league

Three uncapped Pakistani players walked out of their First-Class teams, insisting they wanted to play for a franchise in the T10 league in Abu Dhabi, giving a new turn to the ongoing tussle between players and the Pakistan Cricket Board. Fast bowler Haris Rauf and batsmen Mirza Ehsan Baig and Sohail Akhtar have apparently decided to fly out to Abu Dhabi although the board is yet to issue NOCs to players for the tournament.

Wilcard Sinner is best NextGen

Wildcard Jannik Sinner completed a dream run when he beat top-seeded Alex de Minaur to win the final of the Next Gen tournament for the season's best Under-21 players.
To the delight of the home crowd, the Italian won 4-2 4-1 4-2 to become the third winner of the tournament after South Korean Chung Hyeon and Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
In a good omen for Sinner, both Tsitsipas and Chung reached the Australian Open semifinals two months after capturing their titles.

England Snatches T20 Series against New Zealand

England snatched the T20 series against New Zealand in dramatic fashion in Auckland, with a super over required to break the deadlock in scenes reminiscent of the World Cup final four months ago. A Chris Jordan boundary on the last ball of the England innings brought the tourists level with New Zealand's 146 pushing the rain-shortened match into a tie-breaking super over.
Jonny Bairstow partnered Eoin Morgan in a 17-run stand in the match-and series-deciding over. But unlike the World Cup final, when even the super over was tied, this time New Zealand finished nine runs short to give England the win and take the series 3-2.

Deepak Helps India Clinch Victory Against Bangladesh

India seamer Deepak Chahar took a hat-trick and posted the best bowling figures in Twenty20 internationals to guide the hosts to a series clinching 30-run win against Bangladesh in the third and final match at Nagpur.
Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul struck brisk half centuries to help India post 174-5 in their 20 overs after Bangladesh captain Mahmudullah won the toss and chose to bowl. Iyer smashed 62 off just 33 balls while Rahul made 52 from 35.
In reply, Bangladesh lost Liton Das and Soumya Sarkar in successive deliveries to Chahar early to get off to a false start in their chase and were finally all out for 144 to go down 2-1 in the series.
Opener Mohammad Naim, who made his international debut during the series, kept Bangladesh in the hunt with 81 off 48 balls but his dismissal in the 16th over snuffed out the touring side's chances.
Naim added 98 for the third wicket with Mohammad Mithun, who made 27, before the latter became Chahar's third wicket.

India to Send its Biggest Contingent in Shooting at the 2020 tokyo Olympics

India will send their biggest contingent in shooting at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Indian shooters surpassed their Rio de Janeiro figure of 12 quotas by clinching three more 2020 Olympic berths at the ongoing Asian Championships in Doha.
Aishwary Pratap Sing Tomar, 18, sealed a berth in men's 50m rifle 3position event, while Angad Singh Bajwa and Mairaj Khan opened the account for shotgunners by sealing two skeet berths in the last quota event. While Bajwa defended his title, Mairaj bagged silver after a shoot-off in the goldmedal round with his teammate, to clinch two of the three quotas available in the event.
In men's 3P, young Aishwary took bronze for the quota place as five out of eight shooters in the final were vying for three Olympic berths.
In 2016, India had won 12 quota places and had 17 shots at medals.
For Tokyo,India has15individual quota places and the shooters will have 21 medal opportunities.
Indian marksmen have shown real progress in the rifle-pistol events, as out of 10 events, they have won quotas in nine events. The only event that India doesn't have a quota is men's 25m rapid fire event.

Taylor ruled out of India T20Is

West Indies women's captain Stafanie Taylor has been ruled out of the ongoing T20I series against India. Taylor picked up the injury in the last game of the ODI series and subsequently sat out of the first T20I .
The team's medical staff has advised two weeks of rest for the captain who has sustained a "Grade 1 Medial Collateral Ligament Sprain".
Senior spinner Anisa Mohammed led the team in Taylor's absence, and will continue in that role for the series, while Shemaine Campbelle has been named her deputy. Meanwhile, young Guyanese all-rounder Cherry-Ann Fraser has been named Taylor's replacement for the remainder of the series.

Spotlight on Prajnesh in Challenger

Nineteen Indians have received direct entries in singles, but the spotlight will be firmly on the country's No.1player Prajnesh Gunneswaran when the $56,000 KPIT ATP Challenger men's tennis event starts on 11 November 2019.
Gunneswaran is the top seed by virtue of his world ranking of 94 but it will a test of character and grit for the 29-year-old from Chennai as he looks to go one better than his last year's performance of reaching the final at the MSLTA courts in Mhalunge-Balewadi here.
For, if not for the winner's points of 80 that are vital for his chances of making the Australian Open cut, Prajnesh (expected to open his campaign on Wednesday) would have preferred to stay back at home to support his grieving mother, having lost his father to a prolonged battle against cancer.
It has been a challenging season both on and off the court for Prajnesh, with a neck injury robbing him of month-long action during the clay season, thereby jeopardizing his main draw berth in Melbourne.
Sumit Nagal, the man in form, is seeded third behind Australian James Duckworth, while Ramkumar Ramanathan is the sixth seed. Sasi Kumar Mukund and Saketh Myneni have been seeded eighth and 10th respectively.
The tournament has an expanded 48-player draw following the revamp in the Challenger structure by the ATP. The16 seeded players get a bye in the first round. In the doubles, Purav Raja and Ramkumar have got the top billing while Vishnu Vardhan and Japan's Toshihide Matsui, Arjun Kadhe and Saketh, and Vijay Sundar Prashanth and Britain's Brydan Klein are the other seeded combinations.
The three wildcards have been given to Anvit Bendre and Parikshit Somani, Aryan Goveas and Dhruv Sunish, and Indian-American Dhruv Mulye and David Merrero of Spain.

IPL-style tourney planned in Baroda

The Baroda Cricket Association held its annual general meeting (AGM) and appointed an ombudsman. It is reliably understood that Justice (Retd) C J Thakkar will be the ombudsman for the association. BCA president Pranav Amin said that they have sought permission from the BCCI for holding IPL like tournament and appointed an ombudsman for sorting out problems related to cricket.
After the BCA passes its accounts for 2014-15, it is eligible to get Rs 40 crore grant from the BCCI.

Nov 10, 2019

Aradhya Garg, Srishti Pandey become National junior chess champions

Delhi's Aradhya Garg capped a dream run with a sixth straight victory and became the National junior chess champion.
The girls' title went to Maharashtra's Srishti Pandey who emerged worthy champion with a one-point margin, with nine players tied for second.
Garg was seeded a distant 20th and Srishti sixth.
In the final round, Garg defeated overnight leader and top seed Koustav Chatterjee with black. As it turned out, this first-year student of Kirori Mal College faced rivals from Bengal in the last four rounds, including fourth seed Rajdeep Sarkar (2362) and second seed Mitrabha Guha (2443).

Sixth win on the spin lifts Chelsea to second

Abraham ended Palace's dogged defensive resistance with a simple finish from Willian's deft through ball seven minutes into the second half before Pulisic headed home a loose ball 11 minutes from time to seal all three points.
Chelsea edge a point clear of Manchester City and to within five of leaders Liverpool, who host City in a highly-anticipated clash.
A 4-4 draw with Ajax took the tally of goals Chelsea's prior 18 games this season to 70 at an average of nearly four per game.
However, the Blues free flowing football under Frank Lampard was met with a brick wall of a Palace defence for the first 45 minutes.
Pulisic had scored four goals in his last two Premier League games as the American begins to deliver on his £58mil (RM306mil) price tag and only a fine save from Vicente Guaita denied the United States captain another strike early on.
Thereafter, Chelsea were largely restricted to efforts from free-kicks on the edge of the box before the break as Willian curled inches wide.

Tejaswini books Tokyo ticket

Tejaswini Sawant won the Olympic quota in the women's rifle 3-position event by qualifying for the final with an impressive score of 1171 in the Asian shooting championship.
It was the third in the ongoing championship after Deepak Kumar (men's rifle 3-position) and Chinki Yadav (women's 25-metre sports pistol).
With this, Indian shooters' Olympic quota climbs to 12.

Rohit Sharma tops dubious list with dismissal in 3rd T20I

Team India have a tough task at hand in the 3rd T20I against Bangladesh at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur.
After winning the toss, Mahmudullah opted to bowl and invited India bat first. Bangladesh managed to make a great start to their innings as Shafiul Islam removed Rohit Sharma early for just two runs.
Rohit went for a leg flick and missed the line completely. The ball crashed into the stumps after taking an inside edge off Rohit's bat.
Rohit has been breaking a lot of T20I records recently. He is the most-capped Indian in T20I while also being the top-scoring batsmen in the format.
But Rohit broke another record in the 3rd T20I and it was something that he would have liked to avoid.

Nov 09, 2019

India To Host Men's Hockey World Cup In 2023

India will host the Men's Hockey World Cup for the second consecutive time after the country was picked to host the game's showpiece event in 2023 by the International Hockey Federation (FIH) in Lausanne.
According to the FIH, the Men's Hockey World Cup will be held in India from January 13 to 29, 2020.
Spain and the Netherlands were named as the co-hosts of the 2022 Women's World Cup scheduled to be held from July 1 to 22, 2020.
India will, thus, become the first country to stage four men's Hockey World Cups after having hosted the showpiece in 1982 (Mumbai), 2010 (New Delhi) and 2018 (Bhubaneswar). The Netherlands' had hosted three men's tournaments.

Nov 08, 2019

Rohit Sharma Becomes First Indian Male Cricketer To Play 100 T20Is

Stand-in captain Rohit Sharma became the first Indian cricketer and second in world cricket to complete 100 T20 Internationals when he took the field during the second match against Bangladesh.
Shoaib Malik (111 games) from Pakistan is the only player to have played more than 100 T20 Internationals. Rohit had earlier surpassed Virat Kohli's record to become the highest run-getter in the T20I format of the game.

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